Recommendations for good Linux Haswell laptops?
Hi folks, Anyone got any recommendations or experiences with Haswell laptops running Linux yet? Thinking that it might be time to refresh my work laptop and a Haswell Ultrabook could be quite enticing.. cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
shipping soon / on backorder: https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1
On Sep 27, 2013 8:33 AM, "Chris Samuel" <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
Anyone got any recommendations or experiences with Haswell laptops running Linux yet?
Got mine a few days after Haswell was released in mobile form from Logical Blue One who apparently specialise in gaming laptops. As such, it has an nvidia card that outputs directly to an Intel card. New enough kernel and X can drive the Intel card and that's good enough for me.
Although the nvidia card is still powered up and sucking battery life. I tried messing around with some utilities (Bumblebee) that are meant to control power or selection of graphics card, but all I achieved was hard lock-ups. (That was on a 3.10 kernel, mostly default X from Ubuntu 13.04, and an updated nvidia driver. So things might be better with later versions of X components. Allegedly it does work for some people.) On 30 September 2013 18:20, Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 27, 2013 8:33 AM, "Chris Samuel" <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
Anyone got any recommendations or experiences with Haswell laptops running Linux yet?
Got mine a few days after Haswell was released in mobile form from Logical Blue One who apparently specialise in gaming laptops. As such, it has an nvidia card that outputs directly to an Intel card. New enough kernel and X can drive the Intel card and that's good enough for me.
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:33:10 PM Chris Samuel wrote:
Anyone got any recommendations or experiences with Haswell laptops running Linux yet?
Thinking that it might be time to refresh my work laptop and a Haswell Ultrabook could be quite enticing..
To update people - I ended up getting a Dell XPS 12 9Q33 because of the Uni's preferred supplier system. Works nicely with Kubuntu, here's my experiences so far: http://www.csamuel.org/2013/11/10/first-experiences-with-dell-xps-12-9q33 cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
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